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ellenahzulu.bsky.social @ellenahzulu.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We all see the play, right? No way can RU supply oil & diesel to USA in any significant quantity owing to UKR's major hits on its infrastructure, internet & shipping. It's a domestic ploy to shift blame to Dems & UKR for high prices & shortages when they object to DJT's lifting of sanctions.

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Luke McGee @lukemcgee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We've seen Trump do some shitty things to Ukraine since taking office (Oval Office incident; Alaska summit; Patriot U-turn) but today he's chosen to do a diesel deal with Putin that plays to Russia's economic/warchest advantage and restricts Ukraine's ability to defend itself.

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Paul Clarke @clarkeeeeee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Over the years when I was a Labour member, especially during the Corbyn years, many needed reminding that only those losing elections talk of, or care about, vote share. It's the battle cry of the defeated, not a winning message that saves face. On that note, here's Polanski...

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The AfD and Reform immigration policies are almost identical. There is no plausible reason for considering one far right and the other not.

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Zoë Crowther @zoecrowther.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Business reps told @politicshome.bsky.social they were "unimpressed" with Reform's engagement at conference One business source complained that it was a "shitshow", while another said: "If that's how they run a conference day for business, I don't know how they're going to run an entire country."

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Business Leaders Left Disappointed By Reform UK Conference After “Disaster” Dinner And Donations Row

Business leaders and stakeholders have told PoliticsHome that they have been left frustrated by Reform UK's annual party conference in Birmingham.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I plead with people not to propagate their "it won't make a difference; his supporters love him" gloom. Actually, Farage is on the ropes and he didn't get there by himself. He's there because people continue to believe resistance does make a difference. It's also wrong on the facts. 1/3

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 05/09/2026

My first draft would be something like: "Masked thugs plotting to shut down major infrastructure under the threat of street violence is unacceptable. Those responsible will face the full force of the law". But that's just me, I guess.

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AJ 🦋 @andjamwar.uk · 06/09/2026

Burnham’s silence over these masked balaclava cunts is deafening.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Someone who has no official standing to represent the UK just joined someone with no official standing to represent France, and they signed a treaty between France and the UK. Nothing strange there.

Jordan Bardella and Nigel Farage signing what Bardella thinks is an MoU about migration. In fact, he just bought a Nigel Farage timeshare in Minorca.

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Paul Clarke @clarkeeeeee.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

After seeing what Starmer was subjected to by the mob in his early days as PM at #PMQs, I won't lay into Burnham here today. He needs to be careful he doesn't build a reputation for being a yes man. He also needs to give straight answers to economic questions. I'll give him time before I judge.

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Marlowe_UK @irishdreamer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“Look. All we did was demand his resignation every day for 18 months, studiously ignore everything he achieved and gave Andy credit for it when we got our Man into position. So why isn’t he showing us abject loyalty?” No idea lads. It’s a mystery.

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Paul Clarke @clarkeeeeee.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

It's going to be an exhausting and tedious news schedule over the coming days for the 67 million UK citizens who don't live in Greater Manchester.

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 21/07/2026

Britain, Japan and Italy are bringing Canada in on their project to field a sixth-generation fighter jet by 2035, defense ministers from the nations announced jointly today.

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Canada joins British-Italian-Japanese fighter jet project

Ottawa joins Global Combat Air Programme as an observer nation.

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Paul Clarke @clarkeeeeee.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Sure. Burnham couldn't end rough sleeping in a single city, but obviously doing it across a whole country will be a doddle.

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Darren Jones MP @darrenpjones.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

From the campaign trail and the media studios to the Treasury, No10 and the Cabinet Office. It’s been a privilege to be in the cabinet of a Labour government and to serve the country. Andy Burnham has called to tell me I won’t be a part of his cabinet. I wish him and his team every success.

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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 22/06/2026

No sooner than Starmer announces his resignation than Farage demands a general election and the BBC highlights Burnham’s lack of a mandate. Can anyone see a pattern here?

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Darren Jones MP @darrenpjones.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

We can be grateful for Keir Starmer’s leadership and the work his government has done to put Britain back on a path to a brighter future. We wish Keir and his family all the best for what comes next, and remain forever grateful for what he has done for my party and for our country.

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Paul Clarke @clarkeeeeee.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Cool story. Now, is Polanski going to put his big boy pants on at any point and run for a seat, or is this incessant trapping off all he's got? Currently, his opinion and words carry as much weight as Dave's do down the local pub.

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Paul Clarke @clarkeeeeee.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I know a lot of people have a lot of opinions on Starmer. Some hate him, some love him. Much speculation on his future is framed as "picking a team". One thing's for sure, all that aside, if I was Starmer I'd definitely bow out from having to deal with this twat for even a single second longer! 👇

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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 04/06/2026

Makerfield By-Election Voting Intention: LAB: 49% (+6) RFM: 39% (-1) RES: 8% (+1) GRN: 2% (-1) LDM: 1% (-3) CON: 1% (-1) Via @survation.bsky.social, 26 May - 1 Jun. Changes w/ 18-22 May.

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Paul Clarke @clarkeeeeee.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

My favourite and most comedic moment of #QuestionTime was Kenyon saying Reform will "ban knives completely" Sure, it's that easy. Don't worry, we'll all just earn a Michelin star to prove our credentials so we can chop an onion at home. That's definitely the way forward. Absolute fuckwit.

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Paul Clarke @clarkeeeeee.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

#QuestionTime: Burnham (Labour): Tough gig. Running for local seat, wants to be PM, can't say he wants to be PM. Kenyon (Reform): Out of his depth, nothing new to say, standard Reform nonsense. Wakefield (Greens): Posh word soup. Winstanley (Con): Nervous word soup. Austin (LD): Why am I here?

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Tako 🇬🇧🇵🇸🇺🇦 @takoyakyono.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Seriously. Fuck Nigel Farage.

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Stewart Macdonald @mrred8691.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

So not even a week since this Burnham saga erupted fully All of them were riding high telling us the PM has to go,they were the only ones to save us. Blah blah Starmer is getting on with it and Streeting is a dead duck now,no one is backing him and Burnham is floundering under the weight of his lies

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Brexit increasingly resembles a form of necropolitics through which the will of the living is outweighed by the will of the dead

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I sincerely hope, since he seems to be so popular, that Burnham grows into the person the country needs. I remain, as ever, open and hopeful. But my initial impression is of a very talented local politician, out of his depth, employing the same political handbook that has ruined Labour. Sorry. 7/7

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Has anyone actually tried to win this sort of area by being honest? Wouldn't that be real leadership? To say: "I know why you voted for this, but it's turned out badly and I think you know that. You now have a choice. Trust the next easy solution the same conmen offer you, or fix the damage." 4/

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I really wanted this Burnham speech to leave me hopeful and was actively rooting for it. I found it deflating - to put it mildly. Where it needed to be brave and expansive, it was small and meek. Let me give one example that I found quite instructive, since Andy used it as a framing device. 1/

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JR @janewantstorejoin.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Those bold moves suddenly not quite so easy when you've got to put your money where your mouth is www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Andy Burnham says he will not try to return UK to EU

Burnham vows to have ‘relentless domestic focus’ in Makerfield in first speech since announcing byelection run

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

"What went wrong"? This is many, many, many, many, many, many, many words to avoid saying "Brexit" Quite literally, a word that doesn't appear in the entire essay

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Between this and “councils shouldn’t fly the Ukraine flag” the next election is IMV begging to be won by the Conservatives, but who instead want to kid themselves that “a fluke in Wandsworth” means that Kemi Badenoch is a good leader with a good strategy.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

This is the step many miss in this debate. It doesn't have to be no-free-speech vs anything-goes. There are many activities that we regulate more strictly when commercial. Rules are mostly different between doing-X and doing-X-for-money. Remove financial incentives and grifters will soon peel away.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Reform are targeting individual journalists now it seems

**The Guardian**

The Guardian is concerned by the recent publication on Nigel Farage's social media pages of the professional credentials of a photographer working on behalf of the Guardian while he was working lawfully in a public space. Holding public figures to account is the role of a free press.

As part of the Guardian's journalism covering Nigel Farage's purchase of a £1.4m property in cash shortly after receiving a £5m personal gift, a photographer took pictures from a public path and showed his press card when asked to identify himself.

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westmanajay.bsky.social @westmanajay.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Who has the cards…

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

BREAKING: Reform UK leader Nigel Farage bought a £1.4 million property in cash shortly after receiving a £5m personal gift from billionaire donor Christopher Harborne, according to property records seen by Sky News.

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Paul Clarke @clarkeeeeee.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Poor Wes Streeting. All that scheming and plotting, but alas, his 1% chance of winning a leadership challenge with Labour member votes is now a 0% chance. Angela Rayner says she has been cleared by HMRC over tax affairs www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Angela Rayner says she has been cleared by HMRC over tax affairs

Rayner stood down as deputy prime minister in September 2025 after admitting underpaying stamp duty.

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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 13/05/2026

Starmer dropkicks Badenough in the commons. Humour in adversity. And he has quite the way with a punchline.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

This I think has a lot to it, not just in terms of UK politics, but in how a fixation on defeating the Far Right can lead to such a panicking overcorrection that it starts to undermine an ability to calmly develop policy strategies for all aspects of state and society bsky.app/profile/shuf...

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Shuffle @shuffleosint.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Don't understand why the debate isn't focused on who can best use the massive majority to push through Labour policies and create change that people can feel. Why always having to couch policy on what's best to stop Reform, why not what's best for the country, Labour and the people...

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

😂 Sam Coates makes an ABSOLUTE TIT of himself. Calls PM photos "fake news" then finds out they're from the Press Association. If you make a spurious, inflammatory point you never made about any official photograph before, to pitch yourself as the only reliable source, at a minimum check your facts.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

If there is one essential quality for any Labour PM - actually any global leader - in the current environment, it is courage. Both leadership challengers are currently hiding behind a battalion of unknowns, sent out to inflict hourly papercuts on their own PM. This seems to me to disqualify them.

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Alexis Conran @alexisconran.com · 12/05/2026

Again ... one of the most bizarre stories of the local elections is how the Tories seem to think they're heading in the right direction under Kemi.

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

More than 100 Labour MPs have signed a statement saying this is “no time for a leadership contest” – as Keir Starmer told his cabinet he would not stand down while a formal leadership contest had not been triggered. The letter which was coordinated by backbenchers has been signed by 105 MPs so far.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Outside No.10, the ridiculous hog that is our media is rolling in its favourite muck. And it's hard for such apparent enjoyment of this setting not to add to a suspicion that it is now a default and deliberate destination. That in this clip we see Patient Zero in the UK's chronic contagion of chaos.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I know there’s a lot going on with the Labour Party, but it is all in the bounds of democratic politics. This however, paid collusion between the leaders of two political parties in the run up to election, if true, is a scandal of staggering propositions

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I don't see anyone proposing any big changes. More tinkering around while ignoring the really difficult stuff - immigration, social care, local government funding, EU relations, share of government spending, the entire regulatory state...

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 12/05/2026

The entire second world war, the Troubles and Covid have entered the chat

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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 12/05/2026

And when asked whether each potential Labour replacement to Starmer would actually be a good PM in their own right, the figures decline further Burnham: 26% say would be great/good Rayner: 13% Miliband: 10% Streeting: 8% Cooper: 8% Mahmood: 4% Lammy: 2% yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

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